17 Year Old Finds New Planet
Cukier is a senior at scarsdale high school in new york and while he expected his internship.
17 year old finds new planet. It was the 15 year old tom wagg who discovered a new planet. 17 year old high school student discovers rare new planet 3 days into nasa internship january 10 2020 7 01 am cbs afp nasa s planet hunter satellite tess has discovered an exoplanet orbiting. Wolf cukier 17 discovered a planet that is 1 300 light years away and seven times larger than earth. Wolf cukier 17 of scarsdale n y had wrapped up his junior year of high school when he headed off to intern at nasa s goddard space flight center in greenbelt md where he discovered a planet orbiting two stars.
The first circumbinary planet captured by tess toi 1338 b as it is now known orbits two stars in the constellation pictor approximately 1 300 light year away from earth. Nasa announced the news on their website this week after confirming the teenager s work submitting a paper that cukier. 17 year old boy discovers a new planet on his third day of internship at nasa. The 17 year old version is merely basking in the glory as it took two years for huffy adults to confirm his discovery.
Wolf cukier 17 an intern at nasa s goddard space flight center in greenbelt maryland last july was tasked with going through data on star brightness from the facility s ongoing transiting exoplanet survey satellite mission or tess. Cbs ap nasa s planet hunter satellite tess has discovered an exoplanet.